As I sat at my terminal watching the first episode of The Walking Dead
, a raspy voice next to me muttered, "That would never happen."I replied with the usual, "Yes, I know zombies don't exist." Usually that avoids the unwanted confrontation and allows for a change of subject. It is a formulaic reply that Dale Carnegie would use - if he was a zombie enthusiast. Then he took me by surprise when he explained that the population of a small town would not be completely zombified or dead.
In all honesty, I have wondered what I would do in certain zombie apocalypse scenarios. But I have never thought about the larger picture like the population of a town. With a few Auntie Anne's napkins and 45 minutes before boarding we began outlining a population model using the zombie rules from the universe of The Walking Dead.
